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4Commerce continues to find that POSCO, 

POSCO International Corporation, POSCO MS, and 

certain distributors and service centers (i.e., 

Taechang Steel Co., Ltd. and Winsteel Co., Ltd.) are 

affiliated pursuant to section 771(33)(E) of the Act, 

and further that these companies should be treated 

as a single entity (collectively, the POSCO single 

entity) pursuant to 19 CFR 351.401(f). See 

Preliminary Results PDM at 1. 

5See Antidumping Proceedings: Calculation of 

the Weighted-Average Dumping Margin and 

Assessment Rate in Certain Antidumping 

Proceedings: Final Modification, 77 FR 8101, 8102 

(February 14, 2012). 

6See Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Proceedings: Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68 

FR 23954 (May 6, 2003). 

7See Order, 82 FR at 24098. 

Exporter/producer 

Weightedaverage 

dumping 

margin 

(percent) 

POSCO single entity 4.0.00 (de minimis). 

Disclosure 

Commerce intends to disclose the 

calculations for these final results of 

review within five days of the date of 

publication of this notice in the Federal 

Register, in accordance with section 

751(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 

amended (the Act), and 19 CFR 

351.224(b). 

Assessment Rates 

Commerce has determined, and U.S. 

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) 

shall assess, antidumping duties on all 

appropriate entries in accordance with 

section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act and 19 

CFR 351.212(b). Commerce intends to 

issue assessment instructions to CBP no 

earlier than 35 days after the date of 

publication of the final results of this 

review in the Federal Register. If a 

timely summons is filed at the U.S. 

Court of International Trade, the 

assessment instructions will direct CBP 

not to liquidate relevant entries until the 

time for parties to file a request for a 

statutory injunction has expired (i.e., 

within 90 days of publication). 

Where the respondent’s weightedaverage dumping margin is either zero 

or de minimis within the meaning of 19 

CFR 351.106(c)(1), we will instruct CBP 

to liquidate the appropriate entries 

without regard to antidumping duties.5

Accordingly, because the final 

weighted-average dumping margin for 

POSCO in this review is zero percent, 

we will instruct CBP to liquidate the 

appropriate entries without regard to 

antidumping duties. Consistent with 

Commerce’s clarification of its 

assessment practice, for entries of 

subject merchandise during the POR 

produced by the POSCO single entity 

for which it did not know the 

merchandise was destined for the 

United States, we will instruct CBP to 

liquidate unreviewed entries at the allothers rate if there is no rate for the 

intermediate company(ies) involved in 

the transaction.6

Cash Deposit Requirements 

The following cash deposit 

requirements will be effective for all 

shipments of the subject merchandise 

entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, 

for consumption on or after the 

publication date of the final results of 

this administrative review, as provided 

by section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) the 

cash deposit rate for the POSCO single 

entity will be equal to the weightedaverage dumping margin established in 

the final results of this administrative 

review (i.e., 0.00 percent); (2) for 

merchandise exported by a company not 

covered in this review but covered in a 

prior segment of the proceeding, the 

cash deposit rate will continue to be the 

company-specific rate published for the 

most recently completed segment of this 

proceeding in which the producer or 

exporter participated; (3) if the exporter 

is not a firm covered in this review, a 

prior review, or the original less-thanfair-value (LTFV) investigation, but the 

producer is, the cash deposit rate will be 

the rate established for the most recently 

completed segment of the proceeding 

for the producer of the merchandise; 

and (4) the cash deposit rate for all other 

producers and exporters will continue 

to be 7.10 percent ad valorem, the allothers rate established in the LTFV 

investigation.7

These cash deposit requirements, 

when imposed, shall remain in effect 

until further notice. 

Notification to Importers 

This notice also serves as a final 

reminder to importers of their 

responsibility under 19 CFR 

351.402(f)(2) to file a certificate 

regarding the reimbursement of 

antidumping duties and/or 

countervailing duties prior to 

liquidation of the relevant entries 

during the POR. Failure to comply with 

this requirement could result in 

Commerce’s presumption that 

reimbursement of antidumping duties 

and/or countervailing duties occurred 

and the subsequent assessment of 

double antidumping duties, and/or an 

increase in the amount of antidumping 

duties by the amount of the 

countervailing duties. 

Administrative Protective Order 

This notice also serves as a reminder 

to parties subject to an administrative 

protective order (APO) of their 

responsibility concerning the return or 

destruction of proprietary information 

disclosed under APO in accordance 

with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3), which 

continues to govern business 

proprietary information in this segment 

of the proceeding. Timely written 

notification of the return or destruction 

of APO materials, or conversion to 

judicial protective order, is hereby 

requested. Failure to comply with the 

regulations and the terms of an APO is 

a sanctionable violation. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

We are issuing and publishing this 

notice in accordance with sections 

751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 

CFR 351.221(b)(5). 

Dated: December 7, 2023. 

Abdelali Elouaradia, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement 

and Compliance. 

Appendix 

List of Topics Discussed in the Issues and 

Decision Memorandum 

I. Summary 

II. Background 

III. Scope of the Order 

IV. The POSCO Single Entity 

V. Changes Since the Preliminary Results 

VI. Discussion of the Issues 

Comment 1: Whether Commerce 

Erroneously Applied the General and 

Administrative (G&A) and Financial 

(INTEX) Expense Ratios for the Affiliated 

Service Centers’ Resales 

Comment 2: Whether Commerce 

Incorrectly Omitted POSCO’s Sales to 

Affiliated Customers Prior to Conducting 

the Arm’s-Length Test 

Comment 3: Correction of a Clerical Error 

VII. Recommendation 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–508–814] 

Brass Rod From Israel: Preliminary 

Affirmative Determination of Sales at 

Less Than Fair Value, Postponement 

of Final Determination, and Extension 

of Provisional Measures 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily 

determines that brass rod from Israel is 

being, or is likely to be, sold in the 

United States at less than fair value 

(LTFV). The period of investigation 

(POI) is April 1, 2022, through March 


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1See Brass Rod from Brazil, India, Israel, Mexico, 

the Republic of Korea, and South Africa: Initiation 

of Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigations, 88 FR 

33575 (May 24, 2023) (Initiation Notice). 

2See Brass Rod from Brazil, India, Israel, Mexico, 

the Republic of Korea, and South Africa: 

Postponement of Preliminary Determinations in the 

Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigations, 88 FR 62054 

(September 8, 2023). 

3See Memorandum, ‘‘Tolling of Deadlines,’’ 

dated November 24, 2023. 

4See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

the Preliminary Determination in the Less-ThanFair-Value Investigation of Brass Rod from Israel’’ 

dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, 

this notice (Preliminary Decision Memorandum). 

5See Antidumping Duties; Countervailing Duties, 

Final Rule, 62 FR 27296, 27323 (May 19, 1997). 

6See Initiation Notice, 88 FR at 33576. 

7See Memorandum, ‘‘Less-Than-Fair-Value 

Investigations of Brass Rod from Brazil, India, 

Israel, Mexico, the Republic of Korea, and South 

Africa and Countervailing Duty Investigations of 

Brass Rod from India, Israel, and the Republic of 

Korea: Preliminary Scope Decision Memorandum,’’ 

dated September 25, 2023 (Preliminary Scope 

Decision Memorandum). 

8Case briefs, other written comments, and 

rebuttal briefs submitted by parties in response to 

this preliminary LTFV determination should not 

include scope-related issues. See Preliminary Scope 

Decision Memorandum; and ‘‘Public Comment’’ 

section of this notice, infra. 

31, 2023. Interested parties are invited 

to comment on this preliminary 

determination. 

DATES: Applicable December 14, 2023. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Andrew Hart, AD/CVD Operations, 

Office II, Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–1058. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

This preliminary determination is 

made in accordance with section 733(b) 

of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended 

(the Act). Commerce published the 

notice of initiation of this investigation 

on May 24, 2023.1 On September 8, 

2023, Commerce postponed the 

preliminary determination of this 

investigation until November 24, 2023.2

On November 24, 2023, Commerce 

extended the deadline for issuing the 

preliminary determination by 14 days 

until December 7, 2023.3

For a complete description of the 

events that followed the initiation of 

this investigation, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum.4 A list of topics 

included in the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum is included as Appendix 

II to this notice. The Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum is a public 

document and is on file electronically 

via Enforcement and Compliance’s 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Centralized Electronic Service System 

(ACCESS). ACCESS is available to 

registered users at https://

access.trade.gov. In addition, a complete 

version of the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum can be accessed directly 

at https://access.trade.gov/public/ 

FRNoticesListLayout.aspx. 

Scope of the Investigation 

The product covered by this 

investigation is brass rod from Israel. 

For a complete description of the scope 

of this investigation, see Appendix I. 

Scope Comments 

In accordance with the preamble to 

Commerce’s regulations,5 in the 

Initiation Notice Commerce set aside a 

period of time for parties to raise issues 

regarding product coverage (i.e., scope).6

Certain interested parties commented on 

the scope of the investigation as it 

appeared in the Initiation Notice. For a 

summary of the product coverage 

comments and rebuttal responses 

submitted to the record for this 

investigation and accompanying 

discussion and analysis of all comments 

timely received, see the Preliminary 

Scope Decision Memorandum.7 As 

discussed in the Preliminary Scope 

Decision Memorandum, Commerce 

preliminarily modified, in one respect, 

the scope language as it appeared in the 

Initiation Notice. See the revised scope 

in Appendix I to this notice. 

In the Preliminary Scope Decision 

Memorandum, Commerce established 

the deadline for parties to submit scope 

case and rebuttal briefs.8 Commerce 

intends to issue a final scope decision 

with the final determination in the 

concurrent countervailing duty (CVD) 

investigation of brass rod from India, 

currently due on December 11, 2023. 

Methodology 

Commerce is conducting this 

investigation in accordance with section 

731 of the Act. Commerce calculated 

constructed export prices in accordance 

with section 772(b) of the Act. Normal 

value is calculated in accordance with 

section 773 of the Act. For a full 

description of the methodology 

underlying the preliminary 

determination, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum. 

All-Others Rate 

Sections 733(d)(1)(A)(ii) and 

735(c)(5)(A) of the Act provide that in 

the preliminary determination 

Commerce shall determine an estimated 

all-others rate for all exporters and 

producers not individually examined. 

This rate shall be an amount equal to 

the weighted average of the estimated 

weighted-average dumping margins 

established for exporters and producers 

individually investigated, excluding any 

zero and de minimis margins, and any 

margins determined entirely under 

section 776 of the Act. 

In this investigation, Commerce 

calculated an individual estimated 

weighted-average dumping margin for 

Finkelstein Metals Ltd. (Finkelstein), 

the only individually examined 

exporter/producer. Because the only 

individually calculated dumping margin 

is not zero, de minimis, or based 

entirely on facts otherwise available, the 

estimated weighted-average dumping 

margin calculated for Finkelstein is the 

margin assigned to all other producers 

and exporters, pursuant to section 

735(c)(5)(A) of the Act. 

Preliminary Determination 

Commerce preliminarily determines 

that the following estimated weightedaverage dumping margins exist: 

Exporter/producer 

Weighted-average 

dumping margin 

(percent) 

Cash deposit rate (adjusted for subsidy offset(s)) (percent) 

Finkelstein Metals Ltd ............................................................. 35.88 Not Applicable. 

All Others ................................................................................ 35.88 Not Applicable. 

Suspension of Liquidation 

In accordance with section 733(d)(2) 

of the Act, Commerce will direct U.S. 

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to 

suspend liquidation of entries of subject 

merchandise, as described in Appendix 

I, entered, or withdrawn from 

warehouse, for consumption on or after 

the date of publication of this notice in 

the Federal Register. 

Further, pursuant to section 

733(d)(1)(B) of the Act and 19 CFR 

351.205(d), Commerce will instruct CBP 

to require a cash deposit equal to the 

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9See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(1)(i); see also 19 CFR 

351.303 (for general filing requirements). 

10See 19 CFR 351.309(d); see also Administrative 

Protective Order, Service, and Other Procedures in 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings, 

88 FR 67069, 67077 (September 29, 2023). 

11See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2). 

12We use the term ‘‘issue’’ here to describe an 

argument that Commerce would normally address 

in a comment of the Issues and Decision 

Memorandum. 

13See Administrative Protective Order, Service, 

and Other Procedures in Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Proceedings; Final Rule, 88 FR 

67069 (September 29, 2023). 

14See 19 CFR 351.210(e)(2). 

15See Finkelstein’s Letter, ‘‘Request for 

Postponement of Final Determination and 

Provisional Measures Period,’’ dated October 6, 

2023. 

16See 19 CFR 351.210(e)(2). 

17See Memorandum, ‘‘Tolling of All Deadlines,’’ 

dated concurrently with this notice. 

margin or the estimated all-others rate, 

as follows: (1) the cash deposit rate for 

the respondents listed above will be 

equal to the company-specific estimated 

weighted-average dumping margin 

determined in this preliminary 

determination; (2) if the exporter is not 

a respondent identified above, but the 

producer is, then the cash deposit rate 

will be equal to the company-specific 

estimated weighted-average dumping 

margin established for that producer of 

the subject merchandise; and (3) the 

cash deposit rate for all other producers 

and exporters will be equal to the allothers estimated weighted-average 

dumping margin. 

Commerce normally adjusts cash 

deposits for estimated antidumping 

duties by the amount of export subsidies 

countervailed in a companion CVD 

proceeding when CVD provisional 

measures are in effect. Accordingly, 

where Commerce preliminarily made an 

affirmative determination for 

countervailable export subsidies, 

Commerce has offset the estimated 

weighted-average dumping margin by 

the appropriate CVD rate. Any such 

adjusted cash deposit rate may be found 

in the Preliminary Determination 

section above. Should provisional 

measures in the companion CVD 

investigation expire prior to the 

expiration of provisional measures in 

this LTFV investigation, Commerce will 

direct CBP to begin collecting estimated 

antidumping duty cash deposits 

unadjusted for countervailed export 

subsidies at the time that the 

provisional CVD measures expire. These 

suspension of liquidation instructions 

will remain in effect until further notice. 

Disclosure 

Commerce intends to disclose its 

calculations and analysis performed in 

connection with this preliminary 

determination to interested parties 

within five days of any public 

announcement or, if there is no public 

announcement, within five days of the 

date of publication of this notice in the 

Federal Register, in accordance with 19 

CFR 351.224(b). 

Verification 

As provided in section 782(i)(1) of the 

Act, Commerce intends to verify the 

information relied upon in making its 

final determination. 

Public Comment 

Case briefs or other written comments 

on non-scope issues may be submitted 

to the Assistant Secretary for 

Enforcement and Compliance no later 

than seven days after the date on which 

the last verification report is issued in 

this investigation.9 A timeline for the 

submission of case briefs and written 

comments will be notified to interested 

parties at a later date. Rebuttal briefs, 

limited to issues raised in the case 

briefs, may be filed not later than five 

days after the date for filing case 

briefs.10 Interested parties who submit 

case briefs or rebuttal briefs in this 

proceeding must submit: (1) a table of 

contents listing each issue; and (2) a 

table of authorities.11

As provided under 19 CFR 

351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2), in prior 

proceedings we have encouraged 

interested parties to provide an 

executive summary of their brief that 

should be limited to five pages total, 

including footnotes. In this 

investigation, we instead request that 

interested parties provide at the 

beginning of their briefs a public, 

executive summary for each issue raised 

in their briefs.12 Further, we request that 

interested parties limit their executive 

summary of each issue to no more than 

450 words, not including citations. We 

intend to use the executive summaries 

as the basis of the comment summaries 

included in the issues and decision 

memorandum that will accompany the 

final determination in this investigation. 

We request that interested parties 

include footnotes for relevant citations 

in the executive summary of each issue. 

Note that Commerce has amended 

certain of its requirements pertaining to 

the service of documents in 19 CFR 

351.303(f).13

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), 

interested parties who wish to request a 

hearing, limited to issues raised in the 

case and rebuttal briefs, must submit a 

written request to the Assistant 

Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, within 30 days after the date 

of publication of this notice. Requests 

should contain the party’s name, 

address, and telephone number, the 

number of participants, whether any 

participant is a foreign national, and a 

list of the issues to be discussed. If a 

request for a hearing is made, Commerce 

intends to hold the hearing at the U.S. 

Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20230, at a time and date to be 

determined. Parties should confirm by 

telephone the date, time, and location of 

the hearing two days before the 

scheduled date. 

Postponement of Final Determination 

and Extension of Provisional Measures 

Section 735(a)(2) of the Act provides 

that a final determination may be 

postponed until no later than 135 days 

after the date of the publication of the 

preliminary determination in the 

Federal Register if, in the event of an 

affirmative preliminary determination, a 

request for such postponement is made 

by exporters who account for a 

significant proportion of exports of the 

subject merchandise, or in the event of 

a negative preliminary determination, a 

request for such postponement is made 

by the petitioner. Section 351.210(e)(2) 

of Commerce’s regulations requires that 

a request by exporters for postponement 

of the final determination be 

accompanied by a request for extension 

of provisional measures from a fourmonth period to a period not more than 

six months in duration.14

On October 6, 2023, pursuant to 19 

CFR 351.210(e), Finkelstein requested 

that Commerce postpone the final 

determination and that provisional 

measures be extended to a period not to 

exceed six months.15 In accordance with 

section 735(a)(2)(A) of the Act and 19 

CFR 351.210(b)(2)(ii), because: (1) the 

preliminary determination is 

affirmative; (2) the requesting exporter 

accounts for a significant proportion of 

exports of the subject merchandise; and 

(3) no compelling reasons for denial 

exist, Commerce is postponing the final 

determination and extending the 

provisional measures from a four-month 

period to a period not greater than six 

months.16 In addition, Commerce is 

tolling all deadlines for this 

investigation for a period of 90 days. 17

U.S. International Trade Commission 

Notification 

In accordance with section 733(f) of 

the Act, Commerce will notify the U.S. 

International Trade Commission (ITC) of 

its preliminary determination. If the 

final determination is affirmative, the 

ITC will determine before the later of 

120 days after the date of this 


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preliminary determination or 45 days 

after the final determination whether 

these imports of brass rod from Israel 

are materially injuring, or threaten 

material injury to, the U.S. industry. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

This determination is issued and 

published in accordance with sections 

733(f) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 

CFR 351.205(c). 

Dated: December 7, 2023. 

Abdelali Elouaradia, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement 

and Compliance. 

Appendix I 

Scope of the Investigation 

The products covered by this investigation 

are brass rod and bar (brass rod), which is 

defined as leaded, low-lead, and no-lead 

solid brass made from alloys such as, but not 

limited to the following alloys classified 

under the Unified Numbering System (UNS) 

as C27450, C27451, C27460, C34500, C35000, 

C35300, C35330, C36000, C36300, C37000, 

C37700, C48500, C67300, C67600, and 

C69300, and their international equivalents. 

The brass rod subject to this investigation 

has an actual cross-section or outside 

diameter greater than 0.25 inches but less 

than or equal to 12 inches. Brass rod crosssections may be round, hexagonal, square, or 

octagonal shapes as well as special profiles 

(e.g., angles, shapes), including hollow 

profiles. 

Standard leaded brass rod covered by the 

scope contains, by weight, 57.0–65.0 percent 

copper; 0.5–3.0 percent lead; no more than 

1.3 percent iron; and at least 15 percent zinc. 

No-lead or low-lead brass rod covered by the 

scope contains by weight 59.0–76.0 percent 

copper; 0–1.5 percent lead; no more than 

0.35 percent iron; and at least 15 percent 

zinc. Brass rod may also include other 

chemical elements (e.g., nickel, phosphorous, 

silicon, tin, etc.). 

Brass rod may be in straight lengths or 

coils. Brass rod covered by this investigation 

may be finished or unfinished, and may or 

may not be heated, extruded, pickled, or 

cold-drawn. Brass rod may be produced in 

accordance with ASTM B16, ASTM B124, 

ASTM B981, ASTM B371, ASTM B453, 

ASTM B21, ASTM B138, and ASTM B927, 

but such conformity to an ASTM standard is 

not required for the merchandise to be 

included within the scope. 

Excluded from the scope of this 

investigation is brass ingot, which is a casting 

of unwrought metal unsuitable for 

conversion into brass rod without remelting, 

that contains, by weight, at least 57.0 percent 

copper and 15.0 percent zinc. 

The merchandise covered by this 

investigation is currently classifiable under 

subheadings 7407.21.9000, 7407.21.7000, 

and 7407.21.1500 of the Harmonized Tariff 

Schedule of the United States (HTSUS). 

Products subject to the scope may also enter 

under HTSUS subheadings 7403.21.0000, 

7407.21.3000, and 7407.21.5000. The HTSUS 

subheadings and UNS alloy designations are 

provided for convenience and customs 

purposes. The written description of the 

scope of the investigation is dispositive. 

Appendix II 

List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum 

I. Summary 

II. Background 

III. Period of Investigation 

IV. Scope of the Investigation 

V. Discussion of the Methodology 

VI. Currency Conversion 

VII. Recommendation 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

Stanford University et al.; Notice of 

Decision on Application for Duty-Free 

Entry of Scientific Instruments 

This is a decision pursuant to section 

6(c) of the Educational, Scientific, and 

Cultural Materials Importation Act of 

1966 (Pub. L. 89–651, as amended by 

Pub. L. 106–36; 80 Stat. 897; 15 CFR 

part 301). On November 1, 2023, the 

Department of Commerce published a 

notice in the Federal Register 

requesting public comment on whether 

instruments of equivalent scientific 

value, for the purposes for which the 

instruments identified in the docket(s) 

below are intended to be used, are being 

manufactured in the United States. See 

Application(s) for Duty-Free Entry of 

Scientific Instruments, 88FR74977, 

November 1, 2023. (Notice). We 

received no public comments. 

Docket Number: 23–014. Applicant: 

Stanford University, Department of 

Neurosurgery, Ivan Soltesz Laboratory, 

1201 Welch Road, Stanford, CA 94305. 

Instrument: 50 mW Fiber-coupled DPSS 

473nm blue lasers (x5). Manufacturer: 

Shanghai Laser & Optics Century Co., 

Ltd., China. Intended Use: The 

instrument will be used to control the 

activity of neuronal populations in the 

brain of mice in order to study how 

altering the activity of specific neurons 

can lead to changes in mouse behavior 

and/or the emergence of pathological 

activity in the brain. Specifically, mice 

will be genetically induced to express 

particular optogenetic receptors in 

neuronal populations in the brain. 

These lasers will be used to deliver light 

into the brain via implanted fiberoptic 

cannula. The receptors, when activated 

by light, cause an increase in the 

activity of the neurons in which they are 

expressed. Lasers will be controlled 

through an external controller in order 

to only turn on in response to specific 

behaviors detected in the mouse. The 

goal of these studies is to identify 

specific populations of neurons 

responsible for the emergence of various 

behaviors and brain states. These 

insights will enable the identification of 

neuronal targets for future therapeutic 

intervention to treat various 

neurological disorders. 

Docket Number: 23–015. Applicant: 

University of Connecticut, 3107 

Horsebarn Hill Road, Unit 4210, Storrs, 

CT 06269. Instrument: Swim Tunnel 

Respirometry Systems and Vertical 

Resting Respirometry Systems. 

Manufacturer: Loligo Systems, 

Denmark. Intended Use: The instrument 

Respirometry refers to the study of an 

organism’s metabolic rates. For this 

research, water bath respirometry 

systems will be used to measure how 

the metabolic rates of small-bodied fish 

and bivalves (oysters, mussels, clams, 

etc.) are influenced by the different 

environmental conditions including 

temperature change and the presence of 

chemical stressors such as 

contaminants. This scientific equipment 

order involvestwo complete swim 

tunnel respirometry systems (1500 mL 

chamber size for small-bodied fish 

species) and four vertical respirometry 

chambers (bivalve species) which allow 

for the measure of an organism’s 

metabolic rate by measuring oxygen 

consumption over time. This research 

falls under the broader scientific area of 

study known as organismal 

bioenergetics. The order is broken down 

into component parts (for example, 

chambers, pumps, tubing, temperature 

controls) which together comprise the 

complete respirometry systems. 

Dated: December 11, 2023. 

Gregory W. Campbell, 

Director, Subsidies and Economic Analysts, 

Enforcement and Compliance. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–423–812] 

Certain Carbon and Alloy Steel Cut-toLength Plate From Belgium: Final 

Results of Antidumping Duty 

Administrative Review and Final 

Determination of No Shipments; 2021– 

2022 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Commerce (Commerce) determines that 

Industeel Belgium S.A. (Industeel) made 


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